Coat.



J. BLOCH.

COAT.

APPLIUATION FILED 11313.10, 1914.

Patented Sept. 29, 1914.

JACOB BLOCH, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

COAT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 29, 1914.

Application led February 1G, 1914. Serial No. 818,949.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, JACOB BLOCH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coats; -and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

This invention relates .to clothing, and has particular reference to coats; and the object of the invention is to enable ready-made coats and like garments to be quickly and neatly fitted to the wearer, without the necessity of making expensive alterations therein, or the employment of bushelmen for such purpose; and without necessitating any ripping and re-sewing of any' portions of the garment.

It is Well known that a persons shoulders are usually unequal in height; but readymade coats are cut to fit persons with uniform shoulders; but very few such persons are found and unless the persons shoulders are equal in height a ready-made coat will sag and fit improperly. These facts have heretofore necessitated more or less ripping and alteration in the coat to make it set or perfectly fit the wearer, and such alterations require time, and are annoying to both the customer and to the dealer, and also expensive to the latter.

My present invention enables ready-made coats to be quickly and neatly fitted to the wearer without the necessity of making any alterations in the shoulder portions of the coats; and this result is accomplished by making each coat with invisible pockets in its shoulder portions adapted to receive pads which can be inserted in the pocket over the low shoulder of the wearer, so as to make the coat iit neatly and accurately; and such pads can be put in the pockets by the salesman and the garment fitted practically instantly tomer, without any alterations in the actual make of the garment.

I will explain one practical embodiment of the invention as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front view of a coat indicating in dotted lines the improper hang of such coat as it would appear upon a person with unequal shoulders, and showing in full lines the set of the coat when rectiand satisfactorily on the cus-L fied in accordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 is a detail view showing one of the invisible pockets in the shoulder of the coat opened. Fig. 3 is a transverse section through one of the pockets. Fig. 4 is a detail View similar to Fig. 2, showing the poket closed. Fig. 5 is a detail view of a Pfjl The coat may be a business, dress, or overcoat, of any desired cut and style; and for either man or woman; made up in the customary manner, and lined in the usual way.

At a point directly over each shoulder a pad receiving pocket is provided. Such pocket may be formed of a piece of fabric 1, cut to the desired shape, and one outer edge of themouth of this pocket is sewn to the outer edge of the lining along and adjacent the top of the sleeve-shoulder seam, as indicated at 2; while the other side of the mouth of the pocket may be secured to the edge of the lining as indicated at 3, which is detached from the shoulder at the pocket mouth but neatly fitted thereto. These pockets are preferably so arranged that they are invisible when the coat is opened (see Fig. 4); and the mouths of the pockets may be closed by any suitable means. I prefer .to close the pockets by means of invisible disconnectible fastenings, and preferably use ball and socket fasteners, or glove fasteners as shown at 4 in the drawings. Enough of these fasteners are employed to keep the mouth of the pocket closed, so that when the coat is opened or turned inside-out the pockets will not gap, nor be disclosed, and the pads will be retained therein. These pockets are adapted to contain removable pads 5, which may be of cloth or fabric formed or cut to approximately fit the pockets as indicated in the drawings. In practice such pads may be kept in stock; or one or more `may be supplied with each suit; and they may be either placed in the pockets when the suit is sent to the dealer, or they may be kept separate. In the former casethe salesman can remove the pads before trying on the coat, or can try on the coat and if the shoulders are unequal, remove the pad from the high shoulder. If the pads are not in the pockets when the coat .is tried on the salesman can insert apad, or pads, in the low shoulder pocket. These pads can be inserted or removed quickly and will obviously compensate for any inequalities in the shoulders of the wearer, and bring the tops of the shoulino ders of the coat into alinement and cause the coat to hang properly and impart a pleasing appearance and fit thereto.

The utility of the invention Will be immediately appreciated by dealers in readymade clothing; and the slight additional expense of providing such pockets in manufacturing'the coats is more than offset by the saving of time and expense of ripping and altering the coats to make them fit. such as is novv7 nearly always required in fitting ready-made clothing to particular persons.

What I claim is:

1. A coat having invisible pockets in itsshoulders adapted to receive a removable pad, and disconnectible fastening means for closing said pockets.

2. A coat having invisible pockets in its of two Witnesses.

' JACOB BLOCH.

Witnesses:

JAS. J. GAMs, JOHN R. LEWIS. 

